Here’s an example of the fundamental dishonesty of the San Jose Mercury News. A few months ago, its “Internal Affairs” Sunday section quoted former HP bigwig Carly Fiorina as saying that Sarah Palin lacked the experience to run a large business.
The lie was in IA’s omission to admit that Fiorina stated in the same breath that McCain, Obama, and Biden lacked such experience, too.
The Mercury News received at least ten complaints about this to my own knowledge, but it has refused to clean up its bizarre lie, and re-stated it in the IA column today, page 3B.
This is such a simple lie, not one of the Merc’s Big Lies, but it explains why no one can or should trust the word of the Merc.
Hint to the Merc: An omission is as big a lie as a false statement, no matter who you support for president.
The clip you offer was IN REACTION to the original statement which was made on a St. Louis radio station several hours earlier. Fiorina (in the NBC clip) was trying to undo the damage caused by the earlier statement.
It was the original interview, not the subsequent clean-up efforts, that were at the heart of the controversy…and why the McCain camp eventually threw Carley under the bus!
Here’s a link on the sequence of events:
voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/16/fiorina_palin_lacks_experience.html
Ten months ago, a group of McLeod campaign advisors insisted that Santa Clara invest redevelopment money in a building, where three of them hope to build start up companies. McLeod, who received stipends from Fannie Mae (it is in her 700 forms), keeps insisting that low income seniors should not get priorities for affordable housing (last council meeting, check the tape that Hazel has off it—-he is frothing at the mouth again), but the city should look at the homeless. This is after McLeod, who claimed she was for the 49ers stadium before she was against it, promised low income seniors should would fight for housing for them, which she opposes. Yep, we need to support Rod Diridon, Junior in his effort to get more funds for archiving as McLeod is the flip flopper of 2008.
My post # 5 was unclear. Let’s remove the park god pile of dung and ship it to wherever Graham is buried to use as a headstone; and return the bell (now @ fire station 1, I believe)to the location where it had been for decades—where the half mil pile of dung now sits.
So, after a suitable, respectful period of mourning, can we PLEEEEZE remove that abomination park god he nicked SJ half a mil for, and return the bell to its rightful place and ship it to the cemetery for his headstone?
I am not sure all the numbers are correct, but I like the concept, so I pass this email on. AND, let’s do it at every level of government, all the way down to school boards. See below:
Tough Decisions: When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need
to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall Street and the media normally
congratulate the CEO for making this type of “tough decision”, and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.
I feel our government should not be immune from similar risks. It is therefore recommended that the following cuts be
implemented by the next president. Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50, just one per
state. Also, reduce remaining staff by 25%. Accomplish this over the next 8 years. two steps / two elections) and, of course, this would require some redistricting. Some yearly monetary gains include:
$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for Congress. (267 members X $165,200 member/yr.)$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people’s staff. (estimate $1.3mil.
in staff per each member of the House, and $3mil. in staff per each member of the Senate every year.) $240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.
$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel earmarks each year. (for those members who’s jobs are gone since current estimates for
total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion/ yr.) The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need
to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country? We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.
After all, Congress has many more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established—computers, cell phones, jet airplanes,to name a few.)
Note: Congress did not hesitate to jump on a plane for home this week when it was a holiday, when the nation needed a real fix to the economic problems. Also, we have 3 senators that have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months while on the campaign trail and still they all have been accepting full pay. These facts alone support a reduction in the number of members of Congress.
Summary of opportunity: $44,108,400 eduction in Congress members. $282,100,000 for reductionof House members staff. $150,000,000 for reduction of Senate members staff. $59,675,000 for 25% reduction in staff for remaining House members. $37,500,000 for 25% reduction in staff for remaining Senate members. $7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the
reduced number of> members of Congress. Total estimated savings$8,073,383,400 per year (And that’s just for starters – when you factor in their retirement costs the number increases exponentially!)
Big business makes these types of cuts all the time.
Tough Decisions: When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need
to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall Street and the media normally
congratulate the CEO for making this type of “tough decision”, and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.
Absolutely. Give the CEO a big bonus. After all, they had nothing to do with the problems facing the company. It is all the fault of the lazy-ass workers.
We need to fire all workers and outsource their jobs to good hard-working 3rd world workers, who will work for pennies a day compared to the greedy scum in this country. The only jobs in this country should be for the CEOs and their staff.
This is what America and small business is truly all about!
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http://contribute.wreaths-across-america.org/
To our soldiers and Vets, be safe, and THANK YOU! We are free because of YOU. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Mercury News Lies By Omission Twice
Here’s an example of the fundamental dishonesty of the San Jose Mercury News. A few months ago, its “Internal Affairs” Sunday section quoted former HP bigwig Carly Fiorina as saying that Sarah Palin lacked the experience to run a large business.
The lie was in IA’s omission to admit that Fiorina stated in the same breath that McCain, Obama, and Biden lacked such experience, too.
The Mercury News received at least ten complaints about this to my own knowledge, but it has refused to clean up its bizarre lie, and re-stated it in the IA column today, page 3B.
This is such a simple lie, not one of the Merc’s Big Lies, but it explains why no one can or should trust the word of the Merc.
Hint to the Merc: An omission is as big a lie as a false statement, no matter who you support for president.
Disclosure: I supported Hillary.
#4 Dale: Still not so.
The clip you offer was IN REACTION to the original statement which was made on a St. Louis radio station several hours earlier. Fiorina (in the NBC clip) was trying to undo the damage caused by the earlier statement.
It was the original interview, not the subsequent clean-up efforts, that were at the heart of the controversy…and why the McCain camp eventually threw Carley under the bus!
Here’s a link on the sequence of events:
voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/16/fiorina_palin_lacks_experience.html
Here’s the video that shows Fiorina stating that none of the candidates could manage a big business:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnBXXssj0KY&feature=related
Ten months ago, a group of McLeod campaign advisors insisted that Santa Clara invest redevelopment money in a building, where three of them hope to build start up companies. McLeod, who received stipends from Fannie Mae (it is in her 700 forms), keeps insisting that low income seniors should not get priorities for affordable housing (last council meeting, check the tape that Hazel has off it—-he is frothing at the mouth again), but the city should look at the homeless. This is after McLeod, who claimed she was for the 49ers stadium before she was against it, promised low income seniors should would fight for housing for them, which she opposes. Yep, we need to support Rod Diridon, Junior in his effort to get more funds for archiving as McLeod is the flip flopper of 2008.
My post # 5 was unclear. Let’s remove the park god pile of dung and ship it to wherever Graham is buried to use as a headstone; and return the bell (now @ fire station 1, I believe)to the location where it had been for decades—where the half mil pile of dung now sits.
#2 Dale: Not so. Here’s the recording that caused all the ruckus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkMTAh_3068&feature=related.
Robert Graham passed away last weekend.
So, after a suitable, respectful period of mourning, can we PLEEEEZE remove that abomination park god he nicked SJ half a mil for, and return the bell to its rightful place and ship it to the cemetery for his headstone?
I am not sure all the numbers are correct, but I like the concept, so I pass this email on. AND, let’s do it at every level of government, all the way down to school boards. See below:
Tough Decisions: When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need
to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall Street and the media normally
congratulate the CEO for making this type of “tough decision”, and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.
I feel our government should not be immune from similar risks. It is therefore recommended that the following cuts be
implemented by the next president. Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50, just one per
state. Also, reduce remaining staff by 25%. Accomplish this over the next 8 years. two steps / two elections) and, of course, this would require some redistricting. Some yearly monetary gains include:
$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for Congress. (267 members X $165,200 member/yr.)$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people’s staff. (estimate $1.3mil.
in staff per each member of the House, and $3mil. in staff per each member of the Senate every year.) $240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.
$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel earmarks each year. (for those members who’s jobs are gone since current estimates for
total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion/ yr.) The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need
to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country? We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.
After all, Congress has many more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established—computers, cell phones, jet airplanes,to name a few.)
Note: Congress did not hesitate to jump on a plane for home this week when it was a holiday, when the nation needed a real fix to the economic problems. Also, we have 3 senators that have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months while on the campaign trail and still they all have been accepting full pay. These facts alone support a reduction in the number of members of Congress.
Summary of opportunity: $44,108,400 eduction in Congress members. $282,100,000 for reductionof House members staff. $150,000,000 for reduction of Senate members staff. $59,675,000 for 25% reduction in staff for remaining House members. $37,500,000 for 25% reduction in staff for remaining Senate members. $7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the
reduced number of> members of Congress. Total estimated savings$8,073,383,400 per year (And that’s just for starters – when you factor in their retirement costs the number increases exponentially!)
Big business makes these types of cuts all the time.
Tough Decisions: When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need
to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall Street and the media normally
congratulate the CEO for making this type of “tough decision”, and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.
Absolutely. Give the CEO a big bonus. After all, they had nothing to do with the problems facing the company. It is all the fault of the lazy-ass workers.
We need to fire all workers and outsource their jobs to good hard-working 3rd world workers, who will work for pennies a day compared to the greedy scum in this country. The only jobs in this country should be for the CEOs and their staff.
When will we wake up?
I like your thinking JMO. You are CEO material.
See my other post at,
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/sji/blog/entries/the_four_day_work_week/